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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

As you über fans/stalkers already know, John and I spent the last three days at MegaCon, a local sci-fi and comic book convention. (Yep, we're some of "those" people. HI.)

It was a delightful time, and we had a blast meeting lots of you readers, gawking at Star Trek celebs, and taking pictures of all the awesome costumes. In fact, after three days it's a little strange to see people NOT wearing rainbow wigs and light-up armor. I don't suppose some of you would carry around six-foot foam swords while I adjust back down to reality, would you?

Anyhoo, at every con there are always some costumes you can't ID - kind of like certain character cakes. (See, THERE's the segue you were waiting for.)

For example, I can almost guarantee you know who this character is, so see if you can guess:

Nope, it's not a skinned Princess Leia! Try again.

Give up?

It's this guy:

I guess you could say that cake really took the Mickey out of him. [Bah dum CHA.]

John and I saw TONS of My Little Pony costumes at the con, though thankfully no one subjected Pinkie Pie to quite this level of humiliation:

Well, I'm off to sort through all my photos, so I'll leave you with an awesome wreckplica of everyone's favorite Darth-Vader-Riding-A-My-Little-Pony cake, which we printed onto pins, which we then gave out to any readers who found us at MegaCon, thereby completing THE CIRCLE OF LIFE:

Told ya it was awesome.

Thanks to Gretchen W., David S., James P., Santiago P., Mary, Analiese F., & Kathryn K. for the mega lolz. Oh, and if you guys want to see *my* costume from this weekend, plus all the pics I took of everyone else's, be sure to watch my other blog, Epbot!

Second, I was at Lunacon this weekend. Not as many costume, or people, but we did have a full complement of Darth, Anakin and Storm Troopers who were all great. Although, Darth did follow around behind me with lots of heavy breathing.

Within the con was Maltcon. We drank Single Malt Scotch all night. No cake.

@Barbara Anne - I missed you! ...Drag Queendom...SNORT!! (You haven't been banging down another batch of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, have you? Towel Day isn't until May! Why not have a Jovian Sunspot or a Sumarian Sunset instead? :-)

Did I miss *another* chance to get one of those *awesome* Darth Vader riding a My Little Pony pins?! Awwww, man!! (Swiper Fox, No Swiping!)

And belated B-day to Fluffy Cow & promotion congrats (?condolences? :-) to Jodee in WA - there's always a spot for you here! (And for Haiku Joy...whom we may have to start searching for in a few days...)

PS @ Craig - where are you?! The Bunker has been on the fritz since yesterday. I thought it would go away today but nope... Everything's green (the Jacuzzi water too), shamrocks are *everywhere*, (the keg of beer in the den is nice), and there's a pot of gold in the corner of Theardare's Atrium! A little funny guy swears it's his but Theardare wants to keep it - says it looks good next to his statue collection and the plaques on the wall. And the outside of the Bunker has a HUGE rainbow on it! (Explains the gold in the Atrium, n'est pas?) At least that guy's not expecting me to rock him to sleep in a hammock...

Sad Jesus gave me a good laugh. Something I can always count on at Cake Wrecks.Zombie Dora makes me so happy! Seriously. The best thing that could have happened to her.A Cake Wrecks Con would be awesome!

Hilarious cake at the end. My hubby happens to be named David and he will be 33 this year lol. Told him that is so his cake and he ran off lol. Guess he is no fan of My Little Pony. Ah well back to the drawing board. Though now that Spiderman thing will give us both nightmares.

@KarateLady- stay away from the keg!! It's from the R&D department and no one knows WHAT is in that thing! I went to a Disaster Area concert and having been feeling the same since. ;) I try to lay off the booze but recently found a bottle of retsina in an old bag. I gave it to a flying house party.

@KarateLady ~ I really love you. (in a strictly non-stalker way of course) Condolences might just be in order since I have no freaking clue what the heck I'm doing! Every day at least once I give my boss the deer in the headlights look O.O It's not fun...but I'm learning a lot so that's something. I agree with whoever it was that said that Sad Jesus is sad because he has no nose :(

I gotta say something about that Avengers cake and your comment about Sad Jesus. My cousin was pointing at pictures of the Avengers and his 2 year old girl was naming them, but when they got to Thor, she said "That's Jesus!" Maybe its hard to make Thor NOT look like Jesus, who knows :-)

My three year old got all excited when he spotted the Pinkie Pie cake on the screen. "Mama, look! That looks like a Pinkie Pie cake!" Then he started telling me about how he wants a My Little Pony birthday party.

I was reading this post with my (almost) 3-year-old on my lap and as I scrolled to look at each terrible cake he just kept saying, "No." over and over. Towards the end he started following his "no's" with little gagging sounds. I guess we can say the kids's got "taste". Ha! :)